Fomentar el hábito de leer por placer y disfrutar de la literatura para aumentar la motivación de los estudiantes por aprender inglés. Estos objetivos se conseguirán exponiendo a los estudiantes a diferentes tipos de textos y realizando diferentes actividades relacionadas con los mismos.
PROVERBS
In pairs, students list three possible reasons why Amy came to Lilly with her problem. In groups, students discuss what they think would happen to Amy and Lilly's friendship if Lilly refused to give Amy the money.
CONTEMPORARY POP SONG
EXTRACT FROM A CLASSIC PLAY
In groups, ask students to discuss whether they think that 'good' people are generally happy and 'bad' people are unhappy. Tell the students that the extract they are going to read is from the end of the play, after Macbeth has murdered many people to become king.
EXTRACT FROM A MODERN NOVEL
Ask them to read the passage and decide what Macbeth's feelings and his attitude to life are at this point. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow Creeping in this little pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time;.
POEM
Write the next line on the board and again ask the students how it can be. Continue in this way until you think it is time for students to read the entire poem.
MATERIAL
APOYO
Literatura and the Learner
The experiments of Janet Holst and Bill Louw are illustrative of the many possibilities inherent in stylistic approaches to the study of literature. Inevitably, therefore, the interpretation of meanings is as fundamental to the reader's beliefs as to the language of the text.
Drown from the Pedestal
Literature as Resource
DIVERGING
This exercise will work if a fairly strict time limit (5-7 minutes) is set, as this will encourage students to write down the rules without too much reflection. using the correct mountains and names, e.g. AMASON, SIGMUND FREUD, VIVALDI, HONOLULU. In this example – using dramatization/role play – the students distance themselves from the poem through role play, continuing to explore the loneliness the poem introduced. i). Whether the younger woman ever visits the old lady; what work the younger woman does; what she thinks of the neighbors and what contact she has with them; how long she has lived in the neighborhood, etc.
This exercise is an extension of those of the poem rather than a dramatization of the text. In countries where this situation would be unknown or unthinkable, students may be asked to "translate" the situation into local terms by discussing beforehand what would be the local equivalents of, e.g.
A LITERARY CURRICULUM IN WORLD EDUCATION
Literature can be considered as a means of induction into such a serious view of our world and is a particularly suitable tool for the classroom. Young children are also regularly exposed to the other major convention of literature – that it responds happily to language, to it. Thus, if we are using the literary text for linguistic work, cultural studies as literature (as discussed in the introduction to Brumift and Carter, 1986), responding to the text as literature will presuppose some ability in the totality of what it has been. described in this paper.
If this cannot be guaranteed, the texts will in fact not be literary for the learners. Any statement of educational principle or social values is subject to the same criticism, both inside and outside and country.
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
The Celts put up a strong resistance before retreating to Wales in the far West of the country. His reign was the beginning of the shaky dominance of the kings of Wessex in the South. As you will see, this epic incorporates elements of the Anglo-Saxon and Christian religions.
But the most important teachings in the monasteries were written in the language of the Church, namely Latin. A large number of satirical comedies were written and produced in the early years of the new century.
A FRATHER ON THE WIND
Explain your answer. 4. Explain why the poet says what he does in .. the last line of the poem?. Why is there something in my heart that can speed up a rainbow or a rose? Rainbow: arc or arc of light showing all the colors of the spectrum, formed…opposite to the sun in the sky.
The conch I know that what I hear in the conch here by my ear is only the roar of the ocean. Write a short poem about your own feeling about the romance of people's attraction or temptation of distant, unfamiliar places.
THE BIG CHANCE
It contained the towing sets of tickets "That's your cabin number on the outside," she said matter-of-factly. What were some of the benefits of being promoted to the position of Bill Hargrave's secretary. Why was Paula always busy when some of the less important men in the office wanted her to type for them?
Which of the girls did Bill Hargrave finally choose to be his future secretary. Give the form with dis— for each of the following verbs. Then use each of the resulting words in your sentence:.
TEN STEPS
Which ten steps does the person telling this story refer to in the title. His purpose is to observe so carefully some of the smaller things in his home. What did she ask him to bring with him when he returned home.
Did he take his car out of the garage or did he leave it with them. He wants to be rich; he wants to enrich himself no matter how Change the following nouns from adjectives to verbs by adding en-.
DECISION
I stood staring at Capt. Burroughs' letter, already missing this strange young man as if he had been ours from the beginning. Chad's quiet, unrevealing face didn't change a bit, but Pat looked at me like I'd hit her. Chad wore the same clothes he had come to America in—he wanted to wear—a short coat, a small hat, woolen socks that left his knees bare.
But when we first saw him on the dock in New York, he looked around defiantly, chin up, trying to hide his fears; now his face was serious, his lower part pulled inward slightly. Why were Pat and Bill very disappointed when they received a letter from Captain Burroughs, a friend of Chad's father.
STORY TELLER
When he was only eighteen, a friend had made some of the young man's poems very small and thin. It's hard for us today to understand why Poe wrote some of the things he did1. He was often more unkind than seems necessary, even unjust*. Poe promised he would never do that again, and he wasn't allowed to come back.
In the year that Poe was editor of Graham's Magazine, he was paid enough so that the family was not always poor. A few weeks later he was found in Bahtimore, in the street, and within a few days he was dead.
THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH
At first, as he spoke, some of the dancers began to rush towards the strange masker. And as the dancers move back from the center of the room, the stranger moves silently, without being stopped, with a slow and measured step, through the blue room to the purple room - through the purple room to the green room - through the green to the yellow — through this to the white — and then to the violet room. When he was within three or four feet of the strange mask, the stranger turned and stood still, looking firmly into Prospero's eyes.
A similar meaning, though not exactly the same, can be found in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Part 3: "The police left the room as they found it." See The Story of William Wilson, Part 1, note Who we should hang at sunrise: Since who is the object of the verb hang sorne might think it should be proper who butTEs would sound strange, and is not usually said.
THE BLACK CAT
One day my wife called me from the basement of the old building where we were now forced to live. Suddenly, E noticed a spot in the basement wall where stones had been added to the wall to cover an old hearth that was no longer wanted. Behind them was, as I knew it had to be, a hole just big enough to hold a body.
On the head of the body, with one eye lit by fire, with its mouth open full of blood, sat the cat, screaming its revenge!. Forms of al! . irregular verbs used in these lessons can be found in the Appendix.).
SOFT FORES MAN
Many 20th century critics pointed to the beginning of a uniquely American poetry after the appearance of Walt Whitman's Leves of Grass (1855). A powerful new kind of poetry flourished in the mid and late 19th century among the first poets born and raised as true citizens of the United States. Finally, in the second half of the 20th century, a host of disparate voices redefined American poetry.
However, nearly a hundred women published poetry in the first six decades of the 1800s, and most early anthologies of American poetry contained many more women writers than appeared in anthologies in the first half of the 20th century. American poetry in the early decades of the century disturbed much less unity than most anthologies and critical histories indicate.
